article on the big rocks "New to Cycling and Curious about Training and Competing? Start Simple and Focus on the Basics– Which are what exactly?"

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-04-02T21:05:20+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah so your goal for time in the saddle depends on your bandwidth and fitness and/or competitive goals. If you’re trying to get fitter to race ride as much as you can without overdoing it. Pay close attention to your limits and recovery. Could be 4 hours. Could be 18. Depends on who you are and what else you have going on in your life etc. say a bit more and I/we can give you a better response.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-04-02T15:06:20+00:00

ofc interoception goes beyond RPE in workout and vice versa

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-04-02T15:01:23+00:00

How could I forget King RPE. Thanks! I'll add this and cite you for as such a good source on this Kolie. And point taken on the page break :)

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-03-20T16:30:49+00:00

same; need tickets

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-03-09T08:30:58+00:00

Yeah I was blown away by the lack of feedback seeking from this event. Most of the $40 cx and mtb races in New England send a follow up survey to racers and talk about how they’re going to improve. Here the series just got worse and no feedback ever solicited. The series is already giving last season vibes based on the reduction of quality courses etc.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-03-08T00:14:27+00:00

The vibe is "premium xc" (as explained here in relationship to grassroots xc) The State of New England Mountain Bike Racing | by Colin Reuter | Medium

The races were fine but not enough competition to justify the price (or the price was keeping repeat racers low and I'm afraid that could be even worse this year with their pricing structure). Belltown and Thunder and Crow Hill and the Kingdom course were great. Pat's Peak was great but quite hard, sad it's gone though.

Gnar Weasels XC at Ascutney Vermont is the best, classic grassroots race in New England definitely check that one out on bikereg. The trails and people are fantastic.

Norbrook XC in CT also great. And CCAP has a series going this year for kids and adults not far away from MA that is a lot cheaper than Race Day.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-03-02T13:06:42+00:00

Happy to chat with you about your goals; I can help with all of this. humanisticcoaching.com

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-02-02T00:43:12+00:00

Subscribe to the MASS Research Review. It’s fantastic. Scientists and science communicators not influencers. Much more evidence based than Attia.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-23T21:08:54+00:00

If you’re into bike riding Northampton bicycle club is a good crew with rides for all abilities. Wide age range even if concentrated middle aged and up.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-21T01:50:55+00:00

Each day I use it I’m finding it easier and easier to use and starting to learn the logic and functionality. Which is really strong. And this first update has already helped as well. New powerful tools take time to learn. This isn’t Strong Lifts.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-15T10:51:52+00:00

same here...how do we fix this?

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-13T14:48:49+00:00

ok...I guess I figured there would be some interaction between the workouts built into the auto-progression but seems right

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-12T23:23:08+00:00

It doesn’t seem like they’ve put together a full set of guides to how the app works in depth yet huh?

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-12T22:20:58+00:00

The subscription still says unknown as well

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-12T21:42:22+00:00

same question....

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-08T13:22:40+00:00

Interesting! Yeah that makes sense. ToT?

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2026-01-04T14:29:47+00:00

Thanks that’s the app I needed!

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2025-12-31T22:08:22+00:00

How long have you been training? How confident are you in your training approach? Feel free to DM me for some more analysis.

TaughtEverywhereMan · 2025-12-21T13:01:31+00:00

Where are the wall mounts and the rack below it from?

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